Best Quincy Poems

Like a missile I endeavor to send out these ill words that meet,
Skilled while the earth is grounded to my feet,
Onset I blend together sweet sounds using the alphabet,
No regrets what so ever, a gift for you from this clever creative acrobatic etymologist,
A linguist with...

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John Quincy Adams, our Sixth President,

     to meet with Mole People, planned a descent

down to the center of Earth where they stayed.

     Left office too soon...expedition not made.


January 23, 2019


For: Educate Me With Humor - Leader Clerihew...

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A staid old art collector in Quincy
dotes on cats but with people is chintzy
He willed old shoes to his wife
and to his son a jackknife
His tabby got a Monet and Da Vinci

Written 2/13/22...

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Quincy, Illinois: 1962
 
          long before Barack Obama
 
Those days my father toiled in Quincy,
two weeks, no more,
he said he saw no blacks, except for
two young ladies busing dishes.
Daisy badges on their uniforms
announced their names,
their years...

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